Workshops
Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre: Paint a WA bird portrait (acrylics)
Join local artist Symone Ishak for a vibrant acrylic painting workshop celebrating the unique beauty of Western Australia’s birdlife.
You’ll learn how to plan and sketch your chosen bird onto canvas, experiment with colour mixing, and build layers of paint to create a striking bird portrait full of personality and colour. Guided by Symone’s expert instruction, you’ll explore techniques for capturing the distinctive features and character of our local feathered friends.
Suitable for all levels. Materials included.
Tickets available via:
Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre: Three Week Intro to Still Life Oil Painting
Discover the rich, vibrant world of oil painting in this 3-week beginner-friendly course with artist Symone Ishak. Explore essential techniques such as colour mixing, brushwork, layering, and glazing, while learning how to bring your own ideas to life on canvas.
Through guided exercises and hands-on practice, you’ll develop confidence with materials and build a foundation to continue your painting journey. Whether you’re new to oils or looking to refresh your skills, this course offers a supportive, creative environment to experiment and express yourself through still life painting.
Tickets available via:
https://wfac.org.au/product/three-week-intro-to-still-life-oil-painting-september/
PAST: Stirling Street Arts Centre, Bunbury. Term 2 Workshop - Oil Painting Basics: Capturing Still Life
Participants will create a still life painting while learning essential techniques to develop their own oil painting practice. Over 2 3-hour sessions, the workshop covers mono-tone underpainting, colour mixing, brush selection and care, layering methods from underpainting to final touches, and safe handling, cleaning, and storage of oil paints. We will also discuss going beyond still-life painting, finding inspiration, and sustaining an art practice.
PAST: The Fibonacci Centre, Fremantle, WORKSHOP: Exploring Oil Paint with Still Life painting
Join me for my first local workshop at the Fibonacci Centre, Fremantle!
Here you will learn key techniques of oil painting in this hands-on workshop, suitable for beginners to intermediates. Over two 3-hour sessions, you’ll complete a still life painting on a 25x30cm canvas, choosing from a curated selection of reference images.
I'll be painting alongside you, demonstrating steps including monochrome underpainting, colour mixing, brush selection and care, and layering oil paint—from the underpainting to the final details. We’ll also cover safe handling, cleaning, and storage of oil paints, and discuss going beyond still-life painting, finding inspiration, and building an art practice.
Tickets Early bird tickets $130, general tickets $150 (plus ticketing fee) available via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/still-life-oil-painting-workshop
This workshop runs over 2 sessions, 9am to 12pm Friday 23rd and 30th of May
All materials supplied - feel free to bring an apron or wear clothes you don’t mind getting paint on
This workshop is for adults (18+)
Food and drinks available to purchase next door at Hinata Cafe
For any questions please contact via: symoneishak@outlook.com
PAST: Bunbury Summer School
Introduction to Still Life Oil Painting
Participants will produce a still life painting, using techniques including transferring reference onto canvas, mono-tone underpainting, colour theory, techniques for layering paint and finishing touches and highlights.